STG Security Advisory: [SSA-20041122-11] JSPWiki XSS vulnerability

From: <advisory_at_stgsecurity.com>
Date: 24 Nov 2004 03:00:02 -0000

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) STG Security Advisory: [SSA-20041122-11] JSPWiki XSS vulnerability

Revision 1.0
Date Published: 2004-11-22 (KST)
Last Update: 2004-11-22
Disclosed by SSR Team (advisory_at_stgsecurity.com)

Summary
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JSPWiki is one of famous wiki web applications. It has a cross site scripting
vulnerability.

Vulnerability Class
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Implementation Error: Input validation flaw

Details
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Due to an input validation flaw, the JSPWiki is vulnerable to cross site
scripting attacks.

http://[victim]/Search.jsp?query=&lt;script&gt;alert('hi')&lt;/script&gt;

Impact
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Medium: Malicious attackers can inject and execute arbitrary script code in
a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Affected Products
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JSPWiki v2.1.120-cvs and prior

Vendor Status: NOT FIXED
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2004-10-01 Vulnerability found.
2004-10-27 JSPWiki developer notified.
2004-11-22 Official release.

Credits
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Jeremy Bae at STG Security
Received on Nov 25 2004